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TIL the space shuttle would orbit tail-first due to space debris, this allowed it to take a greater proportion of the debris load on the engines and rear cargo bay, which were not needed in orbit or during descent.

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eXZJ TIL when filming Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Barbra Streisand showed up in a dominatrix suite and whipped Harrison Ford for various reasons. Carrie Fisher came to his rescue shortly after.
7BA7 TIL that Akira Toriyama, creator of Dragon Ball Z, never wrote down background notes for characters or for the series. In fact, he actually admitted forgetting there was a Super Saiyan 2, he drew Goku transforming straight from Super Saiyan 1 to 3.
gMyA9 TIL that after the defeat of the confederate states many soldiers joined the Egyptian military in their attempted conquest of Ethiopia.
wK08 TIL If all the gold suspended in the world’s seawater were mined, each person on Earth could have about 9 pounds of gold.
bV0N TIL the United States unintentionally landed a probe on Venus. One of the four atmosphere probes of the Pioneer Venus Multiprobe mission made it to the surface intact and transmitted information for over an hour.